WebApp / Service - some differences?

Hi all,

I've come from a web app background, and am currently trying to write a
windows service in vb.net using visual studio.

I am running into a few problems - for example I have the first steps of
what I want the service to do fine, its checking a directory, but the next
part is whats throwing me - I want to see what its doing, I was going to
trigger a messagebox to appear, but I get errors when I use:

messagebox.show() etc

I am also finding it impossible to use a regexp which I could really do with
using - the worst part is I dont understand why I cant use these? Do I need
to 'import' something else, many items that are usually available do not
seem available - is this because I've chosen a 'windows service' etc, and
therefore something are not available? Should I inherit from something
different?

yours - very confused..

Regards

Robyou may want to try the microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb group
they do desktop stuff

"Rob Meade" <robb.meade@.NO-SPAM.kingswoodweb.net> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
> I've come from a web app background, and am currently trying to write a
> windows service in vb.net using visual studio.
> I am running into a few problems - for example I have the first steps of
> what I want the service to do fine, its checking a directory, but the next
> part is whats throwing me - I want to see what its doing, I was going to
> trigger a messagebox to appear, but I get errors when I use:
> messagebox.show() etc
> I am also finding it impossible to use a regexp which I could really do
with
> using - the worst part is I dont understand why I cant use these? Do I
need
> to 'import' something else, many items that are usually available do not
> seem available - is this because I've chosen a 'windows service' etc, and
> therefore something are not available? Should I inherit from something
> different?
> yours - very confused..
> Regards
> Rob